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Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 01/14/07 23:13
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:29:40 -0700, jitter <jitf@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>In article <I4adncAX77L-0TTYnZ2dnUVZ_vGinZ2d@comcast.com>,
>Respondant@noemail.not says...
>> jitter wrote:
>>
>> > In article <-dqdnTFaNZS63DTYnZ2dnUVZ_rSjnZ2d@comcast.com>,
>> > Respondant@noemail.not says...
>> >> jitter wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> In article <q5SdnQ85xae_qzTYnZ2dnUVZ_vupnZ2d@comcast.com>,
>> >>> Respondant@noemail.not says...
>> >>>> Rev Turd Fredericks wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Respondant wrote:
>> >>>>>> -=Biscuit=- wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> <sig partially restored>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Help Heather kick cancer's ass! http://www.limeproject.org
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>> SNIP>>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> But the WORST, by FAR, was the bone marrow
>> >>>>>> biopsy. I don't know if they still do it the same way these
>> >>>>>> days, but I was given a tongue depressor and asked to assume the
>> >>>>>> fetal-position while they shoved something that (IIRC) looked
>> >>>>>> pretty-much like a cork screw into my hip. Screwed it IN, and
>> >>>>>> YANKED it out. I NEVER felt pain like that before, and hope I
>> >>>>>> never do again. Bottom line? Hodgkin's Disease.
>> >>
>> >>>>> A few months aqo I had a bone marrow biopsy and it was totally
>> >>>>> painless. They have refined the technique and the drugs they use.
>> >>>>> It stung a bit for a few days after, but no worse than a cut would
>> >>>>> have. Thankfully for me, the news was good.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Good to know. When I had it done (again, 1977) all I was given
>> >>>> was a "local" and a tongue depressor to bite on.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Never did find out why they didn't put me "out" for that, or at
>> >>>> least do it while I was already "under" having the lymph nodes
>> >>>> removed.
>> >>>
>> >>> Doctors can be evil. Nurses and "technicians" (vo-tech grads who
>> >>> never even went to college, let alone med school) can be even worse.
>> >>> They do similar stuff to burn patients: Strap them starked naked to
>> >>> a metal "bed", lower that into a pool of water, and then scrub the
>> >>> burns with gauze. Ever touched a burn? Hurts like hell, doesn't
>> >>> it? Well, imagine having it SCRUBBED with what amounts to sandpaper.
>> >>
>> >> <snip>
>> >>
>> >> You're comparing treatments to diagnostics, and spanning four
>> >> decades in the process.
>> >
>> > Four decades? No. One decade, perhaps. The happy funtime burn-bath
>> > process I described was still happening in the 1990s. I'm sure it was
>> > even worse in the 1960s, but I can't imagine how.
>>
>> I (and others) were talking about bone marrow biopsies, and how that
>
>[whining clipped]
>
>You shared a story of pain at the hands of medical professionals; I
>reciprocated. You're just upset because I stole your thunder. (Get
>over it.)
Diaper Jitter always tires to snip and run when he's been humiliated
with his stupidity. ^_^
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